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On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: |
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> > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one |
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> > with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for |
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> > important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. |
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> > Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to |
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> > like the flexibility of that. |
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> > The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. |
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> > Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the |
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> > linux kernel's software RAID. |
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> thats not hardware raid, it never was, it never will be. |
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Rule of thumb: |
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For any machine you buy to use at home, dump the on-board RAID and use Linux |
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software raid instead. |
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Reason: kernel raid works, that on-board crap doesn't |
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Other reason: real hardware raid costs many times more than that entire |
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computer you bought for home use |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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